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relate to the human condition away. i've been covering all of latin america for most of my career, but no country is alike and it's my job to shed light on how and why news. i'm josh rushing in for me. ok. and your industry me today we're talking about candidates upcoming snap elections or prime minister just entered regret calling for them. share your thoughts with us on twitter or hey, look, if you're in youtube, to listen, that live chat right there. and you to be in the stream. now, the only 6000000 people have already voted in canada the upcoming election. that's a record for advanced voting. here's what voters told us matters most to them. my

main concerns the selection of the economy and candidates coven response. with record government death, life is just on affordable housing is so expensive that many people my age have just given up on ownership. unemployment is still high because of the ongoing lockdown. and our government is forged ahead with a coven response that seems to have no regard for our charter rates or mental health or economic well being. there's so many issues that i can imagine the selection campaign. but there's one that i've been thinking about a lot of recently, and that's the rise of hate crimes and canada. he claims has gone up dramatically over the past several years in this country and very reported out of the ones that are reported only one percent of them are actually investigated by police. there are 3 issues that are top of mind for me. this election number one, the environments absolutely. number 2, covered 19 and seen ourselves out of this pandemic. and number 3, human rights issues, which are very important to me as an algebra to hugh person. joining us to discuss

what a stake in the upcoming election is melissa region in winnipeg, manitoba. she's the hosting producer of a p and national news which focuses on indigenous peoples. and fact ms. have from mississauga ontario, the climate reporter and host of the back bench, a podcast about canadian politics in georgia. affleck, a political columnist from vancouver, british columbia. george. so far as i can tell, canada just had an election in 2019 right. what. what did i do in having another one actually hold on a 2nd, because here's what justin to dos said to that question. yes, we do have to have an election now because the decisions were taken as a country. the decisions were taking about what the next months hold, what the next years and even decades hold. they're being taken now,

they're being taken in the coming weeks. when this government gets back to office, we need to make big choices about how to end this pandemic. and how to build a stronger future for everyone, not a year from now, not 2 years from now, but now, and that's why canadians are faced with such a clear and important choice in the selection. i don't know if i've ever seen an electric politician ask for permission to do the job. he was already elected to do well, he has a minority government in canada. it's it's, we have this parliamentary system and he had didn't have majority of the seats that are available. so it's tough for him to make decisions without a full majority of the seats that are available. so it's completely the real reason he wants that. so he can have a majority and then give them 4 more years, 5, maybe. and that's the reason you're doing it, but that's what we call what he said is spin. it's basically trying to say, we're doing it because we need your commitment to the voters commitment to do this

so that i know i'm making the decision for all of canada. but really what he's really thing is actually my majority. so i can get my own agenda done well, but was his agenda being held up because he didn't have a majority in parliament? not really are george not, not really. right? no, not really. he was here to support. i think the coded response was there was united across all party platform parties. they were united in their approach to making the decisions. and i think he had that support. but he saw the end of the pandemic coming, and he wanted to make sure he had a full majority after that and thought with the seems to be perhaps backfiring on. can you touch on what's going on with the talk i'm getting into this race and who he is for? sure, i so aaron chose leader of canada. the conservative party, freshly minted, got elected during, as leader of the conservative during the pandemic in a virtual leadership race. and this is the 1st time canadian citizen introduced to him,

and he sort of the into just introduce yang as other word because he's trying to say that he's got the better plan to help canada get out of the pandemic. and for cover and tackle things like climate change. and this is a big deal for the canadian conservative party. they haven't exactly type of climate change until the moment. so we're, we're seeing a climate claim for them for the 1st time they, they have ideas for health care and economic reconciliation. so it's a very chaotic election so far, and we're almost the end of it with 4 days to go. and i think what started as a moment of political opportunism has suddenly been just completely destroyed by something that we didn't foresee like on a star, which took up a lot of air time and the beginning of the election and other things that were completely predictable like the chaos over mandatory vaccines, or just what to do to end this pandemic. one thing for all, so tools represented

a conservative party. we have a clipper. i want to share with you. he doesn't sound like any conservative that i'm familiar with. let's hear this and our platform, including a detailed plan on climate change is about making sure we secure the future jobs accountability. national leader showing are caucus, that's driving the bus. i am driving the bus to make sure we get this country back on track. and i'm here to defend the rights of all canadians, women, members of the l, g, b, t, q, community, indigenous canadians. i want to make sure we all secure a future together. so, melissa, not only can the, may i drive a bus, apparently, but he wants to represent the digital people. so does he representatives and peoples in canada? well, you know, he says i was at that debate and he said quite clearly, you know, he wants to be working with indigenous people to advance reconciliation in this country. canada is going to lot to a tone for 450 or history here. and it's not just history that happened it. this is,

these things are ongoing, right? so, you know, he says he wants to do that. this is the person who voted against under. he does not want to share decision making power with lines and resources with indigenous canadians. this is the same person who says, if you are protesting or you're blockading things because you are, you know, indigenous descent because there's a problem with land and resources or you're not being allowed to exercise your treaty rights. he wants to criminalize that. so to say that you want to be a prime minister and represent the representative of all canadians, including indigenous people and work with indigenous people. it's, i'm not sure how he does die when you are talking out of shock. and those actors at a politician is saying one thing and doing and now they, they all do every, everybody with on that stage. i think you can make a pretty valid argument that they say one thing and do the other. i mean, this isn't specific to canadian politics. i think that's demick of everywhere. my

dish, and i think but let's look at true, don't. let's look at the environment cuz everyone says that's important to canadians. and yet, canada is the worst emitter in the g 7 over the past 5 years. since the paris accord add this on my computer if we can show it. hasn't gotten any better under true dell. so what, what, what's going on with environmental policy? why hasn't your day been able to do more? like josh, i'm going to start with a good 1st and then get to the ugly. ok. the good thing is that just in today was the 1st canadian prime minister to take climate seriously before that we weren't tackling the smile at all. we weren't doing anything. he went to paris but can't on the map. when it comes to climate change and tried to impose a carbon price across the country to much resistance, you know, we had the carbon price go all the way to the supreme court because our province's equivalent to the united states in the us didn't,

didn't want them many of them led by conservative premiers didn't want the carbon price, so he successfully achieved implementing certain policies. the problem is he hasn't done enough and this election has suddenly become a battle of track records, where you have a liberal party that has a lot of plans and ideas and policies when it comes to climate change and curbing the impacts of it. but we're not seeing them in action, they're unfolding very, very slowly. on the other side, you have a conservative party that literally has not contended with the climate crisis until this moment. and who's bass continues to deny climate change, despite what the leader says and keep saying, a good, based on public appearances that their series on the file, the concert is platform through the lat, toil and gas, for example. well, i wanted to say to that, you know, for the, for the debate that we did, the debate commission had put out to canadians and what are the issues for you? what do you want to be the leaders questioned on climate far away or is the number

one? and i thought it was interesting to, i mean, yeah, and this comes on the heels of that report that say, you know, the human race is a press is, has approach code read sort of almost past the point of, of no return here. and i think that is actually resounded with people that before it came out of just a couple of months ago. and or maybe not. maybe, maybe just in august actually time is flying when you're thank you for the election was called great. right? so, you know, and it was, i thought it was interesting that with in, not how many people in our berta which traditionally, that's our oil and gas like that's where the tar sands are. and we love having all the big fancy toys and trucks that they have because they make money through the oils and through the oil industry. they love their fracking there, and l berta, people, and operate everything. we want climate action and we want to know how we get out of this reliance that we have on these jobs here. we want to still be in the energy

sector, but how do you government use their georgia almost? it's really, it's really difficult for us to meet those climate goals because we're a resource economy. that's how we run our country that we pay for everything alberta, you know, where we have the oil and gas industry significant. it's really tough to meet those goals because we're a huge country that relies on resource based economy. and so it's tough to meet those standards that were within the g 7 because all the other countries aren't really like us, where we are a small populated country that relies on a lot of money coming from from resource the resource sector. but it's interesting that all of the political parties except one we don't talk about that one. i feel fairly supportive enable and they have said that climate change is real. there's no real climate change denying going on by the major parties in canada. so i think actually is less of an issue in this election than we probably want to thought of. most importantly, people are talking about affordability, they're worried about inflation. now, the pandemic is still happening. we're seeing, you know,

the issue related to the conserve isn't just today this battle with alberta who's went, who went super loose on the regulations related to pet the panoramic. and now it's coming back to bite them. and the leader of the conservative party who is on the rise, he was heading towards potentially a minority. he was going to maybe beat trudeau or the current prime minister. now having to backtrack because he said he supported alberta and the premier and his willingness to open up the economy way too soon. and now he's being asked today, you know, hey, why did you do that? and he's, he's totally trying to spin it and say, you know, he's totally deflecting and so he's in trouble on that issue. and you'll see it. i think it's rudo sir, it's coming up over the next few days. interesting. so look, we're getting a lot of comments on you to i want to bring in this is from tabitha. true. she says i voted early, but not for toe. he had 6 years to get it right. and now he's trying to force us all to get vaccinated. i'm not okay with that. so let's talk about the anti vetch proud. but there are a couple more that i want to bring in here. there's doppelganger robe, sure,

doe has to go, he's awful. he makes promises and never keeps them, and 80 times more than any prime minister in canadian history and has no plan for a budget away out of the pandemic. again, the panoramic comes up one more. walter bro says, can we trust j t in the liberals after several broken promises such as election reform? extremely important, but canada is not a democracy. right now. clean drinking water for indigenous people, etc. all right, so let's, let's talk about it. how it's the pandemic and the idea of vaccinations impacting this election. who wants to jump in on that? well, it's friday and it's it's, it's happening it's, it's causing it to it. definitely driving people's decision making. and as i mentioned, that the, the, what happened today and this week with the conservatives, is really working against them. on the, on the pandemic fund, trudeau thought he could win this, get a majority because of the handling of the, of the co crisis. and it's worked against him where we can say there, melissa,

why i'm interested to know the 6000000 people who have vote and, and looking at some the comments that you've just read there. you know, i don't think it's looking good for the liberals when you get that many people who are rushing out to vote and, and then anytime you open up a dialogue, it's just liberal bashing, right? so, but then who's gonna pick up the vote i'm, i'm not convinced that it's going to be oh tool. so our, you know, but we're us armchair quarterback, sitting around in my office or thinking, you know, is there going to be an orange ways to not? what would that look like? is that even possible for the need be there so far behind all the time? could they form government or what if you've just got such an even, you know, a closer split between all these parties, how well they work together. right? yeah. i think we're heading to a seriously divided pearlman. and the reason is because you're seeing a lot of intense emotions across the country, depending where you are in canada, you have very, very strong feelings about things that the leaders have been unable to address,

constructively or way simply during this short campaign, it's only been 36 days, you know, melissa, starting up. we haven't talked about reconciliation in a year when we discovered so many bodies of indigenous children in residential schools across the country. we haven't talked seriously about climate crisis because the pandemic crisis has taken precedence. but when you talk about the pandemic crisis, no leader has a good, straightforward plan to sell their sort of muddling their way through way and saying like, yeah, we'll try this. but we're also going to use the people who don't want to get vaccine. it's a choice, but also please get back needed. it's very confusing. voters are very confused. and through at the end of the day, you're what have they done and very angry about election. you brought up in the tea there. i want to bring a we have a bit of video from tanya cameron. she's in be in d. p. indigenous. get out the boat organizer check this out. presentations, people in canada only got the right to vote in 1960. since then,

there has been very low voter turnout on reserve, on election day. but in 2015 i started 1st nations rocco, where i helped many 1st nations people get registered to vote and where i worked with volunteers to get out the vote on election date. and that will prove to be a historic success, where voter turnout on reserve rose up to $61.00 and a half percent. and into 2019 federal election. i went part of them and work for the n d p. and that voter turnout was 51.8 percent. so here in 2021 i am once again working for the n d p to engage the indigenous folder in the selection. ok, so look, i want to go to my computer coming out of this just so i catch the audience up to the major parties that are running that the 2 waiting parties clearly are the liberal party, the conservative party, but then the n d p,

the new democrat party. well, they have enough to be influential. they're, they're way ahead of the next party, which is a block cubic law, which probably won't be considered here, but i want to ask melissa, do you see perhaps the n d p coming in? as i think in 2019 they had this kind of role as perhaps being the king makers in the situation. yeah. and, you know, there's, there's a lot of anger towards the liberals for, you know, they divided indian affairs as it's called into 2 separate bureaucracies. and enter 3 tons of money at best and it sounds good. we love that, you know, we show, but all the press conferences where the, all the money's announced. but the reality on the ground is nobody seeing results for that such little results. the amount of money being spent versus the results being seen. i think canadians are frustrated. i think i know indigenous people are frustrated. where's the result and what's your plan? why would we give you a 30 when you haven't been able to make any headway just by billions,

upon billions being thrown up problems like clean water on reserves, housing you name it, not even addressing poverty. we're still the most poverty people in the country. so where do you park your vote? i think you might see that, like saying you might see them parking it. not what i know to the in 2015 indigenous people came out in droves to vote for the liberal and a little bit less. so in 2019, and i think this time, they're not doing it well, that's to the benefit of the conservative party. so what's gonna happen is very liberal. this is, this is how steven harper had a majority for 11 years. it was the split on the left. so if the, if in a concert of love p, please vote n d p please because they're never going to vote for the conservative. so any way they can persuade liberals to vote n d p to the benefit of the conservative. and so a orange wave by the name, they call it here, which is the color the parties plot is that it's actually going to be potentially

could lead to a conservative majority in canada, especially when you look at a toronto that area which has a majority. huge number of seats in the toronto area. you could see a bunch of conservatives get in there a couple of seats in my province here, bruce colombia, and quebec at the provinces. the ontario, quebec, to major provinces control the agenda where they go with what forms the government and if anybody is feeling like they don't want of a liberal and they're going to vote in the p. conservatives are going yahoo! thank you very much. so far i wonder what, what a conservative mean for the rest of the world, canada interact differently with a, with a remain in the paris accords. how would, how would it change things for the rest of the world? i think it would change things significantly. aaron, a tool has committed to the parents agreement, which we now know is outdated. based on the last i pcc report which suggested targets should be much higher. and every tool has paid

a lot of his foreign policy plans and also general climate plans to that of partners. you know, they say that they own only increase their carbon price if the united states and the european union does the same thing, for example. so it will be a very different canada under a conservative leadership. but if i might add to something that george said, if we're seeing confused and angry, voters split the vote on the left for also seen confusing every voter split. the vote on the right. right. so and didn't they had actually that if it's, it's a conservative party, but we also have emerging people's party of canada, which is a fringe right wing group whose leader almost got elected as the conservative leader during the leadership rates. you know, he lost by literally a hair and his party platform is espousing views like, like anti immigrant as plumber phobic like a lot of like freedom talk kind of views and his it's party supporters have been coming out an anti fat protest and just falling through around with

a lot of anger and there are a lot of people think that they could split the right the vote on the right. they could take away both from the conservative parties. so if it is really, really chaotic here. well, i'm looking at this paulo from the c b c. that shows a true though, like 31.7 percent or tool at 31.2, the n d p at 20 point one. and then the people's party below block cubic law. at 6.2, so if you're looking to be really split, it seems like the right isn't as play, but you, you don't believe these numbers. i don't like question the p. p. c one. and the reason why is because i think people are less inclined to admit that that's where they would vote when asked. i think it would be higher. i don't think it's, i don't think it's, you know, 20 percent or anything like that. but i would, i would think if you add a few percent to that, that would be probably more accurate. i think we're also reporting

a lot of purple find like a lot of purple signed a lot of ppc supporters on the ground that i don't think it's being fully reflected in the, in the polling and the numbers. yeah, because i don't think these people are inclined to, to build these out, but they are coming out in bigger numbers. they the goal for the p. p. c. parties, they need to get. they have no seats currently in the current government. so their goal is to get at least a couple of seats, which they could potentially do given way. but generally though, in the last election in the conservatives, that was a popular, popular poll you showed there, you know, that's not necessarily how things land in the last election. the conservatives actually had the popular vote. they had, the majority of canadians were supportive and voted conservative. it's just the way our city, the way we're built, as far as our political system. you win by the number of writings you win and liberals one more of them. but the conservatives had the majority of the popular vote, and i certainly, they certainly will get it again this time without a doubt. but will it be enough in the writings that they need?

and those writers, again, are in the toronto, the major cities, drano, montreal, and to certain extent, vancouver. well, i can tell you, is that and being in your neighbor to the south, live in the us, that there was a time that we didn't take donald trump seriously. either and certainly reshape us politics. do you see that people's party and that kind of mold? they used a lot of the same rhetoric that the trumpet era brought about. a lot of their slogans are very similar to what we saw it. many trump protests. so it is a concern, it's a definite concerning. if they should get a seat in the house of commons, it would be interesting shift for the discourse. let's, let's put it like i do think there's a lot of, there is people, there are people who are looking to do people's party who don't necessarily, i could speak to people that i know personally don't necessarily subscribe to the trump type politics,

but they just fear these people just feel that the conservative do not appeal to them here, the liberals, they feel they've wasted 6 years and they're not going to vote for them. they know they look and go over already financially devastated as, as a country here you can have the next come in because they spend, like, you know, badly. i think to say the least is what people would argue, right? not responsibly. and so you're looking go, we'll forget it, i'm just angry and, and i'm just on no vote for these guys that and it's not that they are, are, you know, i'm a racist, they got in the show their, well, we'll find out what happens on monday. i'll be thrilled to watch as i'm sure our audience will as well. so we'll follow closely on al jazeera english. that's a show for today until next time. i'll see you in the stream. ah,

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